- Time of escape. The two guards are disposed of. They bicker about going at all, taking some of their precious time. A promise of women being free as well is made, which has the riflemen move at last (a redcoat (carrying Newbury) accompanies them. They wait for 15 or so minutes at one meeting post to have everything arranged for their walk into freedom (distraction etc. ). Padstowe happens to stop at just the right spot!

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'Green is the best colour for light troops and if put on in the spring, by autumn it nearly fades with the leaves.' J. G. Simcoe